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| complete name: |
Edward Adelbert Doisy |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1943 |
| together with: |
Henrik Dam |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1943 was divided equally between Henrik Carl Peter Dam "for his discovery of vitamin K" and Edward Adelbert Doisy "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Edward |
| family name: |
Doisy |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
biochemist |
| work location: |
Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO, 63130-4899, United States of America |
| description: |
Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K (K from "Koagulations-Vitamin" in German) and its chemical structure. Doisy was born in Hume, Illinois, on November 13, 1893. He completed his A.B. degree in 1914 and his M.S. degree in 1916 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his Ph.D. in 1920 from Harvard University. In 1919 he accepted a faculty appointment in the Department of Biochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis, where he rose in rank to associate professor. In 1923, he moved to St. Louis University as professor and chairman of the new Department of Biochemistry. He served as professor and chairman of that department until he retired in 1965. St. Louis University renamed the department the E.A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry, in his honor. More recently, the department has again been renamed. It is now known as the E.A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He also competed with Adolf Butenandt in the discovery of estrone in 1930. They discovered the substance independently, but only Butenandt was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1943. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1943/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1893 |
| date death: |
1986 |
| usual name: |
Edward Doisy |
